Penerapan p-Median terhadap optimasi alokasi dan lokasi distribution center pada Sistem Logistik Pedesaan di Indonesia

Every village has Village Superior Products (Prudes) which have economic value that can advance the economy of rural communities. However, the consolidation of the Prudes results is still not optimal, it can be seen from the poverty rate in rural areas which is still high when compared to the level of poverty in the city. To overcome this, it requires the efficiency and effectiveness of distribution centers in rural supply chain systems in order to consolidate the Prudes products from a number of villages to a number of customers/consumers. However, the main problem is how many distribution centers are needed and where are the distribution centers located in an area that has the same type of Prudes. Therefore, the aim of this research is to find the best location P from a number of candidates distribution centers (N = 59 villages) where P ≤ N. To achieve the objectives of this study, the P-Median method is used with the help of AMPL software as a data processing tool. in order to complete the model of the P-Median. The objective function of the P-Median model is to find the minimum value of the total cost based on distance (), production volume (), shipping costs (), and fixed cost () at a number of DC facilities. In the process before the completion of the P-Median model, the approach is first carried out proximity analysis which consists of the pre-qualification and qualification processes in determining candidate facility candidates distribution center. This approach was taken to cover the limitations of APML software in processing data. The result of this research is that the optimal number of DC facilities in five DC facilities with a total cost minimum of IDR 91.80 billion. Meanwhile, the facilities are distribution center located in the village of Sanuanggamo, North Tongauna District (P11), Awuliti Village, Lambuya District (P17), Mumundowu Village, Pondidaha District (P36), Duriasi Village, Wonggeduku District (P44), and Puday Village, West Wonggeduku District (P53).

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Economic Value of Equalization of Access and ICT Infrastructure for Rural Communities

Jurnal Penelitian Pos dan informatika ◽

10.17933/jppi.2020.100203 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 113

Author(s):

Vidyantina Heppy Anandhita

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Economic Value ◽

Internet Access ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Equitable Access ◽

Government Investment ◽

It Business Value ◽

Study Results ◽

The Government

The government has initiated access and telecommunication infrastructure equalization program in Indonesia by deploying BTS to provide signals in the frontier, outermost, and least developed (3T) regions and providing rural internet access services. Government investment through the provision of telecommunications and internet access in rural areas is expected to be able to provide economic benefits for improving the people’s welfare. This study aims to identify the economic benefits of equitable access and infrastructure in rural areas (mainly 3T villages) with the Ranti Generic IS/IT Business Value Table. Based on the study results, it can be concluded that in ideal conditions, equitable access to the internet and telecommunications infrastructure can contribute directly to cost efficiency for rural communities by reducing distribution costs and telecommunications costs. Also, the use of telecommunications and internet access can improve the people’s welfare by increasing business capacity and expanding market segmentation.

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SAWITRI (Sampah Wisata Pentingsari): MODEL PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH AKTIVITAS WISATA DESA PENTINGSARI, YOGYAKARTA

Jurnal Arsitektur KOMPOSISI ◽

10.24002/jars.v10i5.1092 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 315

Author(s):

Vincentia Reni Vitasurya

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Economic Value ◽

Environmental Conservation ◽

Rural Tourism ◽

Tourist Attraction ◽

Interesting Phenomenon ◽

Empowerment Model ◽

Tourist Village ◽

The Impact

Abstract: The development of agriculture-based village into a tourist village is an interesting phenomenon to study in continuity to see the wisdom of local communities to improve the welfare of rural communities. Sustainable tourism in rural areas has significance for developing rural village-based tourism on the natural environment, that rely on an agrarian lifestyle as one tourist attraction but has a greater economic value than before. In the example Pentingsari village, it appears that there are forces in the village which causes people to continue to attract tourists to visit and while still preserving the agrarian life. The existence of tourist activity would leave traces that need to be observed of which is waste. This paper is part of research on empowerment model tourist village and tried to explore how people attempt to manage the impact of waste, so that it can preserve the environment as part of a tourist attraction. The method used is to conduct in-depth interviews and observations of daily people doing tourist activities. The expected result is to know how much waste is generated as a result of garbage tourist activity and how people attempt to cope with these problems. This result can be a model of environmental conservation that can be used for the development of rural tourism in the futureKeywords: waste management model, rural tourism, environmental conservation, rural tourism.Abstrak: Perkembangan desa berbasis agraris menjadi desa wisata merupakan fenomena menarik yang perlu diteliti secara berkelanjutan untuk melihat kearifan lokal yang dapat mensejahterakan masyarakat pedesaan. Pariwisata berkelanjutan di pedesaan memiliki makna mengembangkan kawasan pedesaan menjadi desa wisata yang berbasis pada kelestarian lingkungan alamiah yang mengandalkan gaya hidup agraris sebagai salah satu atraksi wisatanya, namun memiliki nilai ekonomis yang lebih besar dari sebelumnya. Pada contoh desa Pentingsari terlihat adanya kekuatan di desa tersebut yang menyebabkan masyarakat dapat terus menarik minat wisatawan untuk berkunjung dan sekaligus tetap melestarikan kehidupan agrarisnya. Keberadaan aktivitas wisata tentu meninggalkan jejak yang perlu dicermati diantaranya adalah limbah sampah. Tulisan ini merupakan bagian dari penelitian tentang model pemberdayaan desa wisata dan mencoba menggali bagaimana upaya warga untuk menanggulangi dampak sampah sehingga dapat menjaga kelestarian lingkungan sebagai bagian dari atraksi wisata. Metode yang dipergunakan adalah dengan melakukan observasi dan in depth interview dari keseharian warga melakukan aktivitas wisata. Hasil yang diharapkan adalah mengetahui berapa besar limbah sampah dihasilkan sebagai dampak aktivitas wisata dan bagaimana upaya warga untuk menanggulangi permasalahan tersebut. Hasil ini dapat menjadi model pelestarian lingkungan yang dapat dimanfaatkan untuk pengembangan desa wisata dimasa yang akan datang.Kata kunci: model pengelolaan sampah, desa wisata, pelestarian lingkungan, wisata pedesaan

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LEMBAGA KEUANGAN MIKRO SYARIAH: EKSISTENSI DAN AKSESIBILITASNYA BAGI PEMBIAYAAN USAHATANI DI SUMATERA BARAT (Studi Kasus: Koperasi Jasa Keuangan Syariah (KJKS) Baitul Maal Wat Tamwil (BMT))

Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia ◽

10.29244/jai.2016.4.2.149-162 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Widya Fitriana

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

New Technologies ◽

Financial Institution ◽

Primary Data ◽

Observation Data ◽

Multi Stage ◽

The Government ◽

Number Of Customers

Farm financing is one of the factors facilitating the development of agriculture which allow farmers to expand the scale of farming and adopt new technologies. Unfortunately, a number of financial institutions often perceive farmers as "unbankable poor" that is costly to finance. KJKS BMT is one financial institution that is initiated by the government of West Sumatra's mission of poverty reduction in rural areas in particular to improve the access of small farmers to credit. So this study aims to identify and analyze the existence and accessibility of financing KJKS BMT in serving the financing of farming in West Sumatra. This study was conducted in a multi-stage random sampling, cities that randomly selected are Kota Padang and Bukittinggi, and then for each city, one KJKS BMT is also randomly selected. Primary data were collected by interviewing 60 respondent’s farmers. This research uses grounded research methods and data analysis in qualitative descriptive. Period of observation data for 2 years ie 2012-2014. Existence of KJKS BMT to finance farming measured by used five indicator namely a) The number of customers, b) The number of farmer customers, c) credit share for the agricultural, d) The number of farm financing and e) Development of BMT’s human resources. Furthermore accessibility is measured using six indicators, namely: (a) access to information, (b) access to loan procedure, (c) access to the maximum limit, (d) access to the time of disbursement, (e) access to loan repayment, and ( f) facilitation of access to financing. The results show that (1) although the existence of KJKS BMT start respected by rural communities, and even show a positive growth, but the credit share given by KJKS BMT to farm credit is still very small compared to another sectors (like trade and manufactures) which are less than 5%, Even though the level of customer growth of farmers during the past two years is reach 75%, higher than the growth of total customer (2) Accessibility of KJKS BMT to farm financing overall is good, although there are several factor that must be addressed like the availability of information, the number of loan, monitoring and loan supervision.

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Economic Value of Equalization of Access and ICT Infrastructure for Rural Communities

Jurnal Penelitian Pos dan informatika ◽

10.17933/jppi.v10i2.314 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 113-123

Author(s):

Vidyantina Heppy Anandhita

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Economic Value ◽

Internet Access ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Equitable Access ◽

Government Investment ◽

It Business Value ◽

Study Results ◽

The Government

The government has initiated access and telecommunication infrastructure equalization program in Indonesia by deploying BTS to provide signals in the frontier, outermost, and least developed (3T) regions and providing rural internet access services. Government investment through the provision of telecommunications and internet access in rural areas is expected to be able to provide economic benefits for improving the people’s welfare. This study aims to identify the economic benefits of equitable access and infrastructure in rural areas (mainly 3T villages) with the Ranti Generic IS/IT Business Value Table. Based on the study results, it can be concluded that in ideal conditions, equitable access to the internet and telecommunications infrastructure can contribute directly to cost efficiency for rural communities by reducing distribution costs and telecommunications costs. Also, the use of telecommunications and internet access can improve the people’s welfare by increasing business capacity and expanding market segmentation.

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TURNING FARMERS INTO SOCIAL FARMER ENTREPRENEURS FOR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE

NORDSCI Conference proceedings, Book 1 Volume 3 ◽

10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/31 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Remus Runcan

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Low Income ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Physical Work ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Rural Development Programme ◽

Rural And Urban

According to Romania’s National Rural Development Programme, the socio-economic situation of the rural environment has a large number of weaknesses – among which low access to financial resources for small entrepreneurs and new business initiatives in rural areas and poorly developed entrepreneurial culture, characterized by a lack of basic managerial knowledge – but also a large number of opportunities – among which access of the rural population to lifelong learning and entrepreneurial skills development programmes and entrepreneurs’ access to financial instruments. The population in rural areas depends mainly on agricultural activities which give them subsistence living conditions. The gap between rural and urban areas is due to low income levels and employment rates, hence the need to obtain additional income for the population employed in subsistence and semi-subsistence farming, especially in the context of the depopulation trend. At the same time, the need to stimulate entrepreneurship in rural areas is high and is at a resonance with the need to increase the potential of rural communities from the perspective of landscape, culture, traditional activities and local resources. A solution could be to turn vegetal and / or animal farms into social farms – farms on which people with disabilities (but also adolescents and young people with anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide, and alexithymia issues) might find a “foster” family, bed and meals in a natural, healthy environment, and share the farm’s activities with the farmer and the farmer’s family: “committing to a regular day / days and times for a mutually agreed period involves complying with any required health and safety practices (including use of protective clothing and equipment), engaging socially with the farm family members and other people working on and around the farm, and taking on tasks which would include working on the land, taking care of animals, or helping out with maintenance and other physical work”

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Tackling Rural Health, Energy, … and Technological Issues All at Once: A Call for a Global Interdisciplinary Platform for Strengthening Rural Setting Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Challenges ◽

10.3390/challe12020016 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Farshad Amiraslani

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Health ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Rural Setting ◽

Global Challenges ◽

Rural Settings ◽

Research Studies

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has revealed flaws in rural settings where most people live without the necessary tools, income, and knowledge to tackle such unprecedented global challenges. Here, I argue that despite the research studies conducted on rural areas, these have not solved rising rural issues, notably poverty and illiteracy. I propound a global institute to be formed by governments that provides a platform for empowering rural communities through better training, skills, and competencies. Such global endeavour will ensure the remaining rural communities withstand future pandemics if they occur.

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Solid Biomass Energy Potential as a Development Opportunity for Rural Communities

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14123398 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (12) ◽

pp. 3398

Author(s):

Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski ◽

Paweł Dudziec ◽

Michał Krzyżaniak ◽

Ewelina Olba-Zięty

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Biomass Energy ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Energy Potential ◽

Development Opportunity ◽

Biomass Resources ◽

Administrative Units ◽

Solid Biomass

Conventional energy sources often do not fully satisfy the needs of a modern economy, especially given the climate changes associated with them. These issues should be addressed by diversification of energy generation, including the development of renewable energy sources (RES). Solid biomass will play a major part in the process in Poland. The function of rural areas, along with a well-developed agricultural and forest economy sector, will be a key aspect in this as these areas are suitable for solid biomass acquisition in various ways. This study aimed to determine the solid biomass energy potential in the commune of Goworowo to illustrate the potential in the smallest administrative units of Poland. This research determined the environmental and natural conditions in the commune, which helped to identify the crucial usable solid biomass resources. The total energy potential of solid biomass resources in the commune of Goworowo amounted to 97,672 GJ y−1. The highest potential was accumulated in straw surplus (37,288 GJ y−1) and the lowest was in wood from roadside maintenance (113 GJ y−1). This study showed that rural areas could soon play a significant role in obtaining solid biomass, and individual communes could become spaces for the diversification of energy feedstock.

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Moving beyond Limitations: Designing the Helpdys App for Children with Dyslexia in Rural Areas

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13137081 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 7081

Author(s):

Andres Larco ◽

Jorge Carrillo ◽

Nelson Chicaiza ◽

Cesar Yanez ◽

Sergio Luján-Mora

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Language Disorder ◽

Educational Games ◽

Mobile App ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Full Potential ◽

Positive Contribution ◽

Self Confidence

Dyslexia is a relatively common language disorder which is generally ignored in rural communities. It hinders children’s learning processes and, in some cases, is the cause of dropouts or violence in schools. The present work strives to create a web and mobile app as a preliminary step towards the diagnosis and treatment of dyslexic children. Apps providing didactic educational games and activities improve literacy skills for students with reading disabilities. The current work incorporates user experience and prototyping to fulfill app requirements. The authors evaluated the apps with the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) tool to assess engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information. The app’s improvements were immediately implemented and tested in the “Escuela Linea Equinoccial” (Ecuador) school, proving its utility for future use in the education system. The app can be a valuable tool for children with dyslexia to progress successfully through school, raising their self-confidence and, thereby, helping them reach their full potential as adults able to make a positive contribution to society.

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Evaluation of Community Resilience in Rural China—Taking Licheng Subdistrict, Guangzhou as an Example

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18115827 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 5827

Author(s):

Jianhong Fan ◽

You Mo ◽

Yunnan Cai ◽

Yabo Zhao ◽

Dongchen Su

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Rural China ◽

Social Resilience ◽

Learning Abilities ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Guangzhou City ◽

Local Sustainability

Resilience of rural communities is becoming increasingly important to contemporary society. In this study we used a quantitative method to measure the resilience regulating ability of rural communities close to urban areas—in Licheng Subdistrict, Guangzhou City, China. The main results are as follows: (1) Rural systems close to urban areas display superior adapting and learning abilities and have a stronger overall resilience strength, the spatial distribution of which is characterized by dispersion in whole and aggregation in part; (2) the resilience of most rural economic subsystems can reach moderate or higher levels with apparent spatial agglomeration, whilst the ecological subsystem resilience and social resilience are generally weaker; the spatial distribution of the former shows a greater regional difference while the latter is in a layered layout; (3) some strategies such as rebuilding a stable ecological pattern, making use of urban resources and cultivating rural subjectivity are proposed on this basis, in order to promote the sustainable development of rural areas and realize rural revitalization. This work also gives suggestion for the creation of appropriate and effective resilience standards specifically targeted for rural community-aiming to achieve the delivery of local sustainability goals.

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What Are the Impacts of Social Innovation? A Synthetic Review and Case Study of Community Forestry in the Scottish Highlands

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13084359 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 4359

Author(s):

Carla Barlagne ◽

Mariana Melnykovych ◽

David Miller ◽

Richard J. Hewitt ◽

Laura Secco ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Community Forestry ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Local Development ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Study Approach

In a context of political and economic austerity, social innovation has been presented as a solution to many social challenges, old and new. It aims to support the introduction of new ideas in response to the current urgent needs and challenges of vulnerable groups and seems to offer promising solutions to the challenges faced by rural areas. Yet the evidence base of the impacts on the sustainable development of rural communities remains scarce. In this paper, we explore social innovation in the context of community forestry and provide a brief synthetic review of key themes linking the two concepts. We examine a case of social innovation in the context of community forestry and analyse its type, extent, and scale of impact in a marginalized rural area of Scotland. Using an in-depth case study approach, we apply a mixed research methodology using quantitative indicators of impact as well as qualitative data. Our results show that social innovation reinforces the social dimension of community forestry. Impacts are highlighted across domains (environmental, social, economic, and institutional/governance) but are mainly limited to local territory. We discuss the significance of those results in the context of community forestry as well as for local development. We formulate policy recommendations to foster and sustain social innovation in rural areas.

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